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Primary Sources: Across Disciplines

Montgomery Library's Guide to Primary Sources

Civil Rights Documents--Selected Works

The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport. Edited by David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller.
Call Number: GV 706.32 .U65 2003.

Reporting Civil Rights.
Call Number: E 185.61 .R47 2003.

Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965. Edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon.
Call Number: E 185.61 .R48 2006.

Civil Rights and African Americans: A Documentary History.
Call Number: E 184.6 .C58 1998.

Civil Rights and the Black American: A Documentary History.
Call Number: E 184.6 .B5 1970.

To Redeem a Nation: A History and Anthology of the Civil Rights Movement. Edited by Thomas R. West and James W. Mooney.
Call Number: E 184.6 .T6 1993.

Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights. By Bob Adelman.
Call Number: E 185.61 .A235 2007.

Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky. Compiled and Edited by Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K'Meyer.
Call Number: E 185.93 .K3 F74 2009.

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. By William Edward Burghardt DuBois.
Call Number: E 185.5 .D8 1969.

Dusk at Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. By William Edward Burghardt DuBois.
Call Number: E 185.97 .D73 1968.

The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960. By William Edward Burghardt DuBois.
Call Number: LC 2801 .D79 1973.

The Oxford W.E.B. DuBois Reader.
Call Number: E 185.97 .D73 A25 1996 142144.

The Souls of Black Folks: Authoritative Text, Context, Criticism. By William Edward Burghardt DuBois.
Call Number: E 185.6 .D797 1999.

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, or, Africa for the Africans. By Marcus Garvey.
Call Number: E 185.97 .G3 A25 1986.

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: E 185.97 .K5 A2.

Strength to Love. By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: BX 6452 .K5 1963.

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: E 185.89 .T8 K5 1958.

The Supreme Court on Racial Discrimination.
Call Number: KF 4755 .U54 S86 1963.

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968).
Call Number: HV 6477 .U54 1968.

Autobiography, Memoir and Diaries--Selected Works

The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman T. Johnson. By Lyman T. Johnson.
Call Number: E 185.97 .J693 A3.

Freedom Summer. By Sally Belfrage.
Call Number: E 185.93 .M6 B4 1965b 142022.

Autobiography of Malcom X. By Malcom X.
Call Number: E 185.97 .L5 A3 1992.

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. By James Farmer.
Call Number: E 185.97 .F37 A35 1985.

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. By Booker T. Washington
Call Number: E 185.97 .W3164 2000 142009.

Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters First Hundred. By Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany.
Call Number: E 185.96 .D37.

Pictorial--Selected Works

Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. Text by Michael S. Durham; Introduction by Andrew Young.
Call Number: E 185.61 .D94 2007.